The Marist College women’s basketball team will continue its push toward a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament bye, and the men’s basketball team will continue its attempt to climb up in the standings, as both teams hit the road Thursday.

The second-place Red Fox women will visit Monmouth for a game against the ninth-place Hawks.

The Red Fox men, who dropped back into a last-place tie with a pair of losses last weekend, will travel to Saint Peter’s to face one of the teams with which they are knotted.

With six games left in the regular season, Marist’s women (14-10 overall, 10-2 MAAC) are 2.5 games behind unbeaten Quinnipiac, and 2.5 games ahead of third-place Siena. They’re also four games ahead of three teams tied in fifth place; the top five teams get a bye into the second round of the year-end tournament. The Red Foxes are on a six-game winning streak after beating Iona and Siena last weekend.

The Red Foxes, who had lost to the Saints in Albany, made quick work of the rematch, holding the visitors to eight first-quarter points before exploding to score 31 in the final stanza. Sophomore guard Rebekah Hand provided 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Monmouth is 6-16 overall and 4-7 in the MAAC, but has won three of its five home games in MAAC play. The Hawks lost at Siena on Monday, 44-41, after edging Rider at home Saturday, 63-56.

Marist beat Monmouth in Poughkeepsie on Dec. 30, 69-46, behind 27 points from redshirt sophomore forward Alana Gilmer. Marist’s defense held Monmouth to 21.2 percent shooting in the second half and turned the Hawks over 17 times in the game.

Marist’s men (5-19, 3-9) suffered through turnover woes this weekend, making 24 of them against Canisius in a 73-67 loss, and 16 against Iona to fall 98-64.

Saint Peter’s (9-14, 3-9) likewise lost to Canisius on Sunday, 73-58, but picked up a win over Niagara Friday, 58-52. Both games were played in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Graduate Student Nick Griffin, a 6-foot-2 guard, has led the Peacocks this season with 13.6 points per game, hitting 2.2 3-pointers a night. Redshirt junior guard Davauhnte Turner chips in 11.1 points per game and junior forward Samuel Idowu adds 10.9 points and 5.2 rebounds.

The contest is the first between the Marist men and the Peacocks this season, with a rematch in Poughkeepsie scheduled for Feb. 17. Before then, Marist will host Rider on Saturday and visit Fairfield on Feb. 15.